ICYMI: Mothers Day Edition (5/8)

Also, Prom weekend and the closing weekend of our production of Nunsense. So lots to do. And here's your reading for the week. Remember to share the pieces that you think deserve more audience. Everyone can be an amplifier.

Follow the money...

Stephen Dyer takes a look at Ohio charters and discovers that they spend a hell of a lot more on administration that public schools do. Some spend more than half their funds on administrators!

Teens catfish teacher, share his explicit images

From Michigan, the story of a teacher who got catfished in the worst possible way. He's not in trouble, but come on people-- do not send nudes!

Pedagogy, Lesson Plans, Instructional Materials-- and Politics

Nancy Flanagan looks at the tools of the trade and the politics of transparency.

Oakland community schools worked, district shut them down anyway

Jeff Bryant in the LA Progressive with the story of Oakland's initiative to close a bunch of schools. IT seems as if maybe effectiveness was not a deciding factor in the shutdowns.

"The Hate Is Too Much"

Minnesota is losing school board members in record numbers. The 74 has the report on this trend.

WV state charter board's first director advocates using culture war to advance school choice

West Virginia's school choice programs are just getting started, and their first chief thinks talking about the awful indoctrinators in public schools is the way to go. Just in case you had any doubt about what all the vilification of public school was about.

Youngkin's ed secretary says her goal is preparing students for jobs

Meanwhile, in Virginia, the ed boss argues that schools are just there to crank out meat widgets for corporations. 

How to lose the culture war

Robert Pondiscio offers a right-tilted history of the culture war, explaining where ed reformsters went wrong. You may disagree with a bunch of this (it's in the Washington Examiner), but it's a perspective worth reading.

Kansas Democrat Threatens to Recruit Parents to Sue Schools For Lack of Honest History Lessons

Do you want a law that gives parents the right to sue schools over educational discomfort? Fine, says a Kansas Democrat--I will round up parents of every marginalized group to sue when their story isn't told in history class. A discussion involving extensive misquoting ensued. From The 74.

Last time, the religious right told us not what we can teach but how to teach it

Alfie Kohn takes a look at one of the previous iterations of the culture wars--back in the 1970s when the religious right was all upset about Whole Language.

Alabama losing large numbers of new teachers within first three years

Another study outlining the hemorrhaging of teaching positions, this time in Alabama.

#HateRead: Admissions, testing and the media

Akil Bello takes a look at the ins and outs of media coverage of college admissions news. Bonus: a list of sources that he trusts on these issues.

Pa’s K-12 school nurses treat more than scrapes and bruises. And they’re asking lawmakers for help

A look at the push to update nurse staffing requirements in PA. Includes a map that will allow you to be surprised at how few states do not have any staffing requirements for nurses at all.